- Horace White
Infobox Governor
name = Horace White
order = 37th
office = Governor of New York
term_start = 1910
term_end = 1910
lieutenant =George H. Cobb
predecessor =Charles Evans Hughes
successor =John Alden Dix
birth_date = birth date|1865|10|7|mf=y
birth_place =Buffalo, New York
death_date = death date and age|1943|11|26|1865|10|7|mf=y
death_place =New York City ,New York
party = Republican
spouse =
profession =
religion =Horace White (
October 7 ,1865 Buffalo,Erie County, New York -November 26 ,1943 New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician fromNew York . He wasGovernor of New York in 1910.Life
He attended
Syracuse High School ,Cornell University , andColumbia Law School . [ [http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/3165/18/003_18.pdf Cornell Alumni News, vol. III, no. 18, Jan. 30, 1901] .]He was a member of the
New York State Senate from 1896 to 1908. He wasLieutenant Governor of New York from 1909 to 1910, elected on the Republican ticket with GovernorCharles Evans Hughes . Hughes resigned in October 1910 when he was appointed to theUnited States Supreme Court , and White succeeded to the governorship, remaining in office until the end of the year.White served as a trustee of Cornell University from 1916 to 1943. In White's honor, in 1973, Cornell named two
professor ships after him: the first two Cornell faculty to become Horace White Professors wereMichael Fisher and Jack Kiefer. [ [http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/5340/12/004_19.pdf 2 Professors Are Named To Horace White Chairs] , Cornell Chronicle, vol. 4, no. 19, Feb. 22, 1973.]He was a nephew of
Andrew D. White .White once owned Fox Island in the east of
Lake Ontario , located in the Town of Cape Vincent.He was buried at the Oakwood Rural Cemetery in
Syracuse, New York . [ [http://www.patspresidentialplaces.com/hwhite.html Photoes of burial site] ]References
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